Question

Hello I was writing a Regular Expression (first time in my life I might add) but I just can’t figure out how to do what I want. So far, so good since I already allow only Letters and spaces (as long as it’s not the first character) now what I’m missing is that I don’t want to allow any numbers in between the characters…could anybody help me please?

/^[^\s][\sa-zA-Z]+[^\d\W]/ 

Answer 1

OK, what you need is:

/^[a-zA-Z][\sa-zA-Z]*$/ 

This matches:

^           - start of line [a-zA-Z]    - any letter [\sa-zA-Z]* - zero or more letters or spaces $           - the end of the line 

If you want to ensure that it also ends in a letter then put another

[a-zA-Z] 

before the $. Note however that the string will then have to contain at least two letters (one at each end) to match.